DATES
11 MAR 2026 15 h Classroom A.4.3 BBAA UPV
12 MAR 2026 – 23 APR 2026 Sequence online
24 -30 APR 2026 _ 12 – 14 h _ Presencial Espai n-1 UPV
Taught by Bruno Delgado Ramo and Regina Rivas Tornés
Free activity aimed at the UPV community. Registration until 2 March 2026.
The beam of light, the shutter speed, the projection speed, the focal length of the lens, the distance to the projection surfaces and their nature… how can these technical procedures be transferred to the exhibition space? How can they be reduced or isolated without losing their ability to express a cinematic experience? What possibilities open up when working individually with the different elements of the cinematographic apparatus? How do these technical logics dialogue with other materialities and spatial contexts?
The workshop Optomechanics Cabinet. Assembly and Disorganisation of the Cinematic Apparatus in the Exhibition Space is developed around the exhibition La raya verde (The Green Ray) by artists Bruno Delgado Ramo and Regina Rivas Tornés. We invite students to participate by bringing optomechanical devices, from Super-8 mm projectors or slide projectors to toys related to optics or cinema, whether for their own use, family use or second-hand purchases, to arrange them in the space and experiment with them. The aim is to work on these machines and explore new possible uses.
We propose rethinking these viewing devices from another perspective, questioning notions such as obsolescence, disuse or original functionality and activating their material, spatial and expressive potential in the exhibition context.
The activity is structured in two phases. The first session will be devoted to presenting the artists’ practices and collectively gathering optomechanical devices, which will serve as a starting point for developing cinematic experimentation that will materialise in a joint proposal. The second phase will take place during the exhibition set-up days, when the exhibition and spatial possibilities of this proposal will be explored together with the students.
BIO
Regina Rivas Tornés works as a conservator and restorer of film, video and audiovisual media at the Reina Sofía National Art Museum. She combines this with artistic practice and theoretical research, exploring the material conditions of the moving image.
Bruno Delgado Ramo is a visual artist with a background in architecture. He approaches his work as research based on the experimental and physical practice of film media, in which specificity, process and space take on importance.
We share the motivation to work at the intersection between artistic practices and mechanical trades and to highlight ways of doing things that survive on the margins. This perspective broadens our understanding of the moving image today.